Burglary spree hitting six San Dimas businesses may be related to others in Azusa, Glendora, La Verne

Sheriff’s officials are investigating six smash-and-grab burglaries of mostly small restaurants in San Dimas early Thursday that they believe are connected to a handful of other similar crimes around the same time in La Verne, Glendora and Azusa.

All of the suspected burglaries in San Dimas occurred between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. along Arrow Highway and Via Verde Drive, said Lt. Elisabeth Sachs of the San Dimas sheriff’s station in a written statement.

Here are all of the businesses that were hit:

Daily Donuts at 105 W. Arrow Highway

The Chopstick House at 860 W. Arrow Highway

Inland Beauty Dispatch at 860 Arrow Highway

Baskin-Robbins at 557 Arrow Highway

Yummy Sushi at 1126 Via Verde

La Villa Kitchen at 1144 Via Verde

In each burglary, small amounts of cash and gift cards were stolen, Sachs said.

No injuries were reported.

Officials believe there were two to four men participating in the crime spree. They were only described as wearing dark clothing and hoodies, and driving a dark-colored four-door sedan, Sachs said.

Sachs said investigators are trying to determine whether the same suspects in the San Dimas robberies were also responsible for the other robberies in nearby cities. According to KTLA, at least six other businesses were also burglarized in those cities.

At least one of those other burglaries occurred at restaurant in Glendora — at 1:20 a.m. on Tuesday, four men wearing black hoodies broke into Rita’s Italian Ice at 865 W. Route 66, Glendora police Sgt. Marty Barrett said.

They broke through a glass door and took an undisclosed amount of cash and an iPad, he said.

Investigators are contacting the businesses to gather any surveillance video they may have, as well as looking at video from cameras placed along the boulevards, Sachs said.